Luckily, I felt so horrible that my Super Instincts *plays fanfare* kept nagging me that something wasn't right and I needed to talk to my doctor. I then proceeded to freak myself out until I called her and gave her the details.
Before I finished explaining, she informed me that I still had food poisoning and that until the cause was completely out of my system, I would continue to be sick. I would've thought that with everything coming out of me for all this time that everything was out already, but I guess that's why I'm not the one giving people medical advice :D.
She recommended that I take Enterogermina, right off the bat. I asked for the spelling, wrote it down, thanked her, ended the phone call, and congratulated myself on having a phone call with an actual person and not having an anxiety attack.
Hubby went out and got me the liquid version which looks like this:
However, the pharmacist wasn't sure of my dosage since I was pregnant so I needed to call back the doctor to find out because I forgot to ask the first time. Fuck. *Deep breath* About an hour later, I finally called and got the info. After watching Grey's Anatomy from the beginning all morning, I had my doctor vibes on and I was actually uber excited to take my uber cool looking medicine.
I took the first dose, which tasted the way I guess I'd expect IV fluids to taste, and within an hour, promptly fell asleep. This was around noon. I'm not sure how long I would have slept for, but by 6PM hubby repeatedly called to wake me to open the front door for his dad. I was so groggy I kept falling over, but aside from the same weakness and exhaustion I had been feeling all week, I felt no different, minus the everything coming out of me part.
Normally, I'm extremely susceptible to side effects, but the only thing that affected me was instant drowsiness. About an hour after I woke up, I had the same abdominal pain I've been having all week and ran to the bathroom a few times. I'm guessing the medicine probably wore off.
I took my second dose about half an hour ago and I can feel the drowsiness creeping in already. I haven't had any abdominal pain since taking this dose, but I'm not sure if that's mind over matter. Still, I haven't thrown up once since starting this medication, so that's pretty great news for me.
Maybe my morning sickness really is gone and all this is entirely just food poisoning. I seriously hope so. After talking to a couple fans from my facebook page, I stopped freaking out and my mind was finally at ease. Starting this medication just made me feel that much better physically as well.
I've never heard of this medication before and websites are pretty vague on it, but hey, the doc (who is hesitant about any medication while pregnant) okay-ed it, and so far, it looks like it works. No complaints here. Off to dreamland I go :)
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